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Summary: After eleven-year-old Cyril's single father rejects him, the compassion of a stranger who agrees to take care of him helps him move forward.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KID1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF KID
Summary: During World War II, 70,000 Finnish children were shipped off to Swedish families who had agreed to shelter them for their own protection until the end of the war. This is the story of one such boy, Eero. After the death her husband, grief stricken Kirsti agrees with great reluctance to send Eero to Sweden. His surrogate parents, Signe and Hjalmar, are grieving the recent loss of a daughter....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Matila Röhr Productions 2007
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MOTSummary: Ingrid, a smart, free-spirited, and somewhat narcissistic artist kills her deceitful lover in a crime of passion. Even while serving a prison sentence, she exerts control over her adoring teenage daughter, Astrid, who's forced to spend her teenage years in a series of foster homes before becoming her own person. Explores the strange relationship of Ingrid and Astrid, and includes Astrid's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003